URC is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries, including the United States.

Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems. Internationally, we expand access to and improve the quality of services addressing maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; food and nutrition; and vulnerable children and families. In the US, we focus on improving communication related to issues like substance abuse, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations.

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Project Overview:

The URC Quality & Performance Institute (QPI) is a division of URC which serves as an organizing force to bring together best practices, staff experience, partnerships, and documentation on improving health care at URC. QPI leads URC’s initiatives to improve health delivery and develop country capacity to strengthen health and human service delivery systems.

QPI’s work focuses on strengthening health systems to develop the capacity to continuously improve and achieve better outcomes. Through QPI, URC has implemented quality improvement and operations research programs in health care since 1981, in addition to our work in the following areas: community health; gender integration; health workforce development; HIV; knowledge management; maternal, newborn and child health/family planning; nutrition; research and evaluation; and vulnerable children and families.

QPI leads a consortium of partners to implement the USAID Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) Project to scale up VMMC services in South Africa.

Supporting the transition of donor-funded VMMC service delivery to Department of Health facilities to introduce public sector sustainability

The project aims to reach 80 percent circumcision coverage among the target population to reduce HIV infection rates by working at fixed, outreach, and mobile VMMC sites in rural and urban priority districts across six provinces of South Africa: Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North West.

Due to the large number of inquiries we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience & qualifications for this position will be contacted. No phone calls please. However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise. Thank you very much for your interest.

Interested, qualified candidates can also send their resumes to recruitment@urc-sa.com on or before the 28 January 2019. Closing date for applications: 28 January 2019.